White House officials said Thursday that the U.S. had to destroy any safe harbor claimed by the Islamic State, and that the use of the MOAB bomb in eastern Afghanistan was aimed at doing just that.

“At around 7:00 p.m. local time in Afghanistan last night, the United States military used a GBU-43 weapon in Afghanistan,” said White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. “The GBU-43 is a large, powerful and accurately delivered weapon. We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that ISIS fighters used to move around freely, making it easier for them to target U.S. military advisors and Afghan forces in the area.

“The United States takes the fight against ISIS very seriously, and in order to defeat the group, we must deny them operational space, which we did,” Spicer continued. “The United States took all precautions necessary to prevent civilian casualties and collateral damage as a result of the operation.”

Early reports indicate that the bomb killed 36 ISIS fighters, but little else is known about the success of the blast. Administration officials from the White House to the Pentagon have downplayed the use of the MOAB, but anything that has a nickname like “Mother of All Bombs” is invariably going to get the TV tongues a-wagging, especially coming on the heels of the Syrian missile strike as it did. Still, the generals have said there was no message behind the bomb – that it was simply the right tool for the right job.

Perhaps what was more interesting was President Trump’s response to reporters. Asked if he authorized the use of the bomb, Trump essentially told reporters that he wasn’t getting involved in the minutia of battle plans – that he has given the military his “total authorization.”

That’s a philosophy in stark contrast with his predecessor. Obama, despite having no military background himself, came to be seen as an obnoxious micromanager as commander-in-chief. Trump may have SAID he knew more than the generals on the campaign trail, but Obama walked the walk. And there’s no question that his bad decisions, combined with the confrontational handcuffs he put on the U.S. military, contributed to the growth of ISIS.

There’s a reason Trump didn’t get too specific about his plans to defeat ISIS, and it’s only partly because he wanted to play his cards close to the vest. More broadly, he understood that a real estate tycoon in Manhattan doesn’t have any business telling the military how to fight a war. Obama should have understood that a couple of years as a junior senator didn’t qualify him to do it, either.

Trump, like Bush, is the “decider.” And when it comes to blasting a hole in a network of ISIS tunnels, he doesn’t even need to be involved. Our generals know the objective. They’ve known for a long time.

Only now, they finally have the freedom to achieve it.

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Yeh Yeh Yeh look we the American people are not fools, we know that every training base, every city taken over by ISIS etc is well known to the military and the only thing that needs doing is taking them out and civilian casualties be damned. You see those of us who had parents who served in WWII or who spent time in POW camps for the duration of that war are fully capable of understanding the need to annihilate the enemy to keep your own form being annihilated.

Too bad history is not taught in schools today and those running this country, being fat, happy and paid enormous sums of money and benefits by the hard working Americans don’t do their jobs due to PC and the lack of education given the good little peons throughout public schools for the last 40 plus years, wants them NOT to do the RIGHT thing.

Time to stop the world and get these savage bastards off and out. Everywhere, stop the insane refugee program that in and of itself is FAKE cause most of the people coming into all our countries, ARE NOT REFUGEES.

Dirty Daug

Stopping the insane refugee program is number one on Trumps agenda, but every liberal has fought against this using paid off judges and the like. Most of these sandniqqers are young males of the fighting age and after they get to America they disapear and hookup with the bad guys.

Tiger

The laws on the books and the Constitution give Trump the right and if these judges are allowed to overstep their bounds and not put into their place then we will have what Thomas Jefferson feared.

Time for Trump to take it to the Supreme Court where knowing that Obama and Carter and other presidents used these very laws to stop immigration from countries they knew were not our friends, they will have to be with Trump.

We can’t keep pussy footing around this, it has to be done.

iamtrue

You know what President Trump knows exactly what he’s doing and knows exactly what to do so all you in betweeners or what ever you all are back off and let President Trump do his job.

Tiger

We “Betweeners” voted him into office, he said he was giving the country and our government back to the people, so we “The People” are not sheep who follow blindly and we know the laws and we expect them to be followed and for him to enforce them.

“I will get Radical Islam the Hell outa our country.” We hold him to it, one of the reasons he was elected was to secure the safety of all of us.

Backing off is not an option. Get that straight or you can go straight to Hell.

iamtrue

True and he intends to do just that and i don’t follow him blindly i have that much faith in him to know he is doing the job i voted him in to do and you need to back off and let him do the job you voted I’m in to do and let him do it the way he sees fit.

Jan

I hire a plumber or electrician when I need one because that is their job. I do not try to tell them how to do it, Just like President Trump is not trying to tell the military how to do their job he told them to go to it, We finally got someone who knows how it is done

Tiger

When I hire anyone I keep my eye on them and then make sure their work is up to snuff.

The CIC is supposed to give the power to his military that is how it works. A real leader allows those who he puts into office to do their jobs and that is why he puts them there.

iamtrue

Hanging over the shoulder sometimes can create problems sometimes it’s good to give breathing room.

Tiger

No need to hang over their shoulder, just common sense to keep your eyes open as many a homeowner has learned the hard way.

Rob D

Perfect wording!

Tiger

Thank you.

will

you are sure outspoken – what state are you in

Tiger

Florida but wouldn’t matter where I was I have been this way since 12 years old, being outspoken and not taking any crap off anyone is what made this country great and it is what will make sure it stays that way.

will

im a hour south of orlando 🙂 near PSL

Tiger

Ahhh there ya go. I am near a National Forest and down the road from major springs and a major river. Clean air, good water and plenty of open spaces.

Shayne Jenkins

Glad to have you guys on the same side! Lower Tampa Bay.

Tiger

Good to know I believe we are all over the U.S. in huge numbers as evidenced that Trump won and the Trump supporters fighting back.

Oh i believe he’s around he’s just hanging in the cracks below watching everything.

Tiger

Sadly you are correct, he is coming back with a vengeance and going to do the talk circuit to bring the new generations into the Community Organizer fold. I am surprised with Lois Lerner and her comments along with the ongoing investigations into Hillary.

iamtrue

Yea and we need to start intercepting so we can get a full handle on things and play their game on some things like pissing them off when you’er pissed off you don’t think clear and make vital mistake and we need more of that.

Tiger

Or if you have millions of rioters in the wings when you get pissed off you piss on everyone everywhere, using weapons filled with chemicals etc.

iamtrue

Are you talking like actual pee lol that would be sick but hay what the heck.

Tiger

That actually happened a woman pulled her pants down and urinated and then crapped on a Trump sign. I will try to find the video. They are seriously ill and now talking decapitating Republicans at Berkeley, did you hear about that? Families pulling their children out of school and students wanting out.

iamtrue

Ok that’s sick but i believe it and no i didn’t hear about beheading Rep. at Berkley why are they not being arrested ? Pretty soon we the people will have the need to take matters in our own hands and that’s only because we will be forced to for the reason of defense.

Tiger

Imtrue what you say here is truth all the way. I am with you on this. I hear the police at Berkeley have been told to stand down and observe only.

Tiger

Also the Antifa that is at Berkeley is the same Antifa all over Europe. This is a wold wide movement. Europeans are having the exact same problems with Lefties that we are and Le Penn is tied with a Leftie in France who wants the Muslims to continue flowing into France. Even with all their terror attacks and all the deaths they are divided, it is just stunning and so unbelievable the stupidity. Germany is fighting also against the Left. All of Europe having rape and crimes galore committed by the refugees.

You are exactly right about the “refugee” program – it is anything but. It is an intentional plan by the UN to segregate the United States so this country will be easier to infiltrate, take over and roll into the NWO plan.

Tiger

Right on UN Plan 21/2030 and O talked about it at the UN. Europeans fighting them, UK left the EU due to them, Slavic countries won’t take them and along with that program O did this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QOwAJ2ez6U

river

Awwwwwwwwwwe… too bad, they were denied their safe space. If only I could have seen the turbans beards and mindless hunks of Allah floating downward from the sky like the feather in Forest Gump.

Trump trusts the military, and has given them a task. To defeat ISIS. And that is what they will do.

John Williams

Trump may not of had “much to say” but he has said more in 90 days than obama did in 8 years and you can bet the world is listening.

ToniStimmel

In a war against an enemy who uses children to carry suicide bombs, adults seemingly volunteer to shield soldiers, soldiers don’t have any identifying uniforms or markings and use mosques as forts, there are no innocent civilians. There are only 3 kinds of civilians, those who really sympathize with ISIS, those who afraid to not sympathize with ISIS, and those who don’t agree with ISIS but are afraid to let it show by evacuating. All 3 are as worthy as ISIS soldiers for the Hell of War.

I hate to think of an American Gold Star Mother who lost her son because he was killed by civilians he would have had to disobey his Rules of Engagement to eliminate before they killed him.

The general feeling in this country that an American soldier is somewhat below a civilian in importance to this country and whatever hell hole country we send him to has got to be changed.

We are the land of the free because we are the home of the brave. We are and most remain a nation of warriors.

Len

I am never trusting anything by the U.N. nor do I want to.

iamtrue

Ditto

jdbixii

“Still, the generals have said “there was no message behind the bomb” – that it was simply the right tool for the right job.” The message behind the bomb is that “those who do such things are worthy of death.” This is a determination which comes from a belief system which, purposefully, justifies the elimination of people who are violently opposed to it. It is this commonality factor which is the meaning of “military.” It is the paradox of the use of the means of lethal weapons to impose a punishment for the violation of the rule of law. What, in our belief systems, is “uncivil,” to the extent that we become militant or violent in imposing it on others? It is not merely a disagreement over “freedom” or the “freedom of choice.” It is a willful, sinful alienation from the God of love. In order to not be vulnerable to this malevolent alienation, while recognizing its existence or some perverse notion of its “right” to exist, a circumspect separation from it, enforced by discrimination, is necessary to security. Liberals need, desperately, to see the truth of this fact. We can never be “one big, happy family” so long as we tolerate or practice willful, sinful alienation from the God of love. Don’t tell us that the 36 who inherited the earth were martyrs for a higher cause, if you are allowing Allah as the “higher cause.”

desert fox

So, now they have moved their planes to the Russian base who have been complicit in the poisonous bombing of innocent people. Let the world take notice of their protection for this kind of action.

Walter Flatt

WE WOULD NOT HAVE WON WORLD WAR 2 IF WE HAD NOT CARPET BOMBED WHERE NECESSIARY. THOSE LITTLE KIDS ARE TAUGHT TO KILL AS SOON AS THEY CAN HOLD A KNIFE. YOU BLEEDING HEARTS HERE IN THE STATES THAT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT COMBAT, SHOULD GO OVER AND SPEND ONE YEAR AMONG THEM, SORRY YOU WOULD NOT LAST A WEEK.

MCCAIN, WAS NOT A FIGHTER, ALL HE DID WAS FIY A PLANE AND BOMB PEOPLE BELOW UNTIL HE WAS SHOT DOWN, REALLY NO COMBAT EXPERIENCE AT ALL. HE DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT A 6 YEAR OLD WALKING UP TO A GROUP HOLD A GRENADE WITH THE PIN PULLED OUT, THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM WERE GROWN PEOPLE.